Indian American Sikh woman elected to key Republican position
A nationally recognised trial lawyer, Dhillon was born in India, but raised in rural North Carolina after her Sikh parents moved to the US.
WASHINGTON: An Indian-Americanwoman Sikh lawyer from California has been elected to a key position in theRepublican party at the national level.
Chandigarh-born Harmeet Kaur Dhillon , 47, was elected as the newest national committee member of the Republican National Committee on Sunday by thousand plus votes in attendance at the California Republican Party convention. She was earlier the vice chairman of the California Republican Party.
She was the first woman elected to this position of vice chair of the California Republican Party.
A nationally recognised trial lawyer, Dhillon was born in India , but raised in rural North Carolina after her Sikh parents moved to the US.
“A little girl from Chandigarh , India, the Bronx, and Smithfield, North Carolina back in the day, to being one of California’s three votes on the RNC. For the next four years starting in late July, I will help shape the policies of the party of Abraham Lincoln and Harriet Tubman , the party of liberty and opportunity,” Dhillon said after here election.